"I myself make stuff up because I think it is funny and has the potential to make me laugh while stuck in traffic"...and this is why we love you!

Too cute. I expect you will be wearing this to the office for halloween. We expect photographic evidence!!!

cute! where's the photo of you wearing it?

Cutest beanies ever! Thanks for the great pictures; I'll have to try one, maybe right now, they're so dang cute!

I so need to learn to knit to make one of these puppies! If only I could purl :/

This is almost cute enough to make me a knitter. Almost.

I *LOVE* this hat!! I'm going to find me some orange wool as soon as I get off work! Maybe I'll even make matching ones for my whole family ... I may have to bribe my husband to get him to wear his, but my kids will do it! (And while I'm buying orange wool, perhaps I'd better stock up on exclamation points!!!)
Hm, to start the hat(s) now, or wait until the kitty shrug is done. Dilemma, that.

I look like a zombie from planet DeathWatch.

Fine. I added my zombie scary picture. Please judge silently to yourselves.

Cutest beanie I've seen this year! Although I am an avid crochet freak (all together now: traitor!)I still love your site. Please know I am trying to mend my ways. I did pick up a how-to knit video the other day and am determined to master the needles!

Last night I had the chance to see your book at - yet you guessed it- Wal-Mart! Although I desperately wanted to buy it my debit card screamed NOOOO! My poor plastic friend is feeling terribly used and underappreciated and as a result, my funds are low.

No worries though! Next week is payday!!
:)

Oh, it's perfectly adorable! I love this hat and your name for it, heh. I love your sense of humor. I vote for the curlie-cue over the pompom. And of course, a cat helper and wine are crucial in good knitting.

I think making things because they make you laugh is a noble pursuit!

For the record, I loved your pajama bottoms. I have black ones with pink dots. I notice you had a furry paw to help you with the cast on. Thank goodness.

I couldn't sleep at all last night so finally I got up and started making a curlicue, but La Soba was having none of this "awke during sleeping hours" thing, so she just plopped onto my lap and snored.

I love my cats. They are beyond cute.

I *love* it! Halloween always gets me going on silly stuff. Like I was looking through the Williams-Sonoma catalog and I saw an orange electric mixer for $100, just for Halloween, along with cookie cutters to make 3-D cookies. Who needs this stuff? Well I would love to have it, but I won't get it. So instead I might just make that hat!!

That's purty darned cute - I may have to make one for the WMG (my own head's too big for any sort of covering).

Mebbe Ellen B. can give up some orange yarn.

Okay, Okay. This one post has actually moved me to pick up the needles after more decades than I care to admit...

Phew!

That is absolutely adorable, and if I'm not mistaken, I so totally have some orange Highland Silk yarn from Elann that is pumpkin colored!

You're a genius, Laurie! Thanks!

Love it! The stem reminds me of these ribbons my sister and I used to wear on our pony tails whe we were kids .Someone would sell them to Mom. I wish I had some for my girls. I can't knit or crochet.

I love this project! I'm definitely starting one this week.

On another note, today was pay-day so I ordered my copy of your book! I can't wait until it comes!

I love it! Just think how many other vegetables/fruits can be made with this hat recipe...

I myself made a whale toy for my son, Q, just for sh*ts and giggles. Apparently more for giggles. My husband said it looked like a giant do-rag.

The deathly pallor is at least a bit better than Dallas's Supa-Tan. Hope you feel better, and *save,print* to make this hat. Not like I don't have a million and one skeins of assorted oranges.

I have those same pjs. I will think of you when I wear them, from now on.

That is ADORABLE! I look hideous in orange, but maybe I could knit one for my nephew? The Devil Baby Blanket in your book is really cute, too!

Sigh. Too bad I'm stuck knitting the Cardigan from Hell on size 3 needles right now. And I just can't stop working on it to take up another project because that's how a certain counted-cross stitch dragon got left only half-finished - 20 years ago....

(Frank's coming to your book signing! YAY!)

Too cute, thanks for sharing!

Got your book this past weekend and I'm almost done, bravo for a job well done! I look forward to many more CAP books in my collection :)

The completely brilliant hat is cleverly coordinated with a DKNY jacket! Fashionistas of the world, look to your laurels. Or to your Laurie. Something like that. (I own nothing that says DKNY or Lauren or Adolfo or like that on it. The astute observer may notice the occasional LL Bean tag, but only if I wear my shirt out in public inside out. It's been known to happen.)

Anyhow, the hat is completely brilliant, as I may have mentioned, but... how do you do the reversible with the stem/pompom? (Once long ago I made a hat with what were supposed to be grapevines trailing off it. They just hung there, as I did not know from curlicues. You are completely brilliant.) Or does it just end up smooshed under the hat?

Great hat! It's too adorable, I may need to make one of those for myself. Love the little helper paw in the curlicue cast-on photo!

So. Cute.

Hafta do this for my niece & nephew - they'll giggle, but they'll love wearing the pumpkin hat. Probably the only time I'd buy orange fiber, though. Really cute, thanks!!! And I vote for the curlicue. How'd you get LaSoba to knit? Mine just want to felt the stash.

You should bring that hat to Peoria and model it for us at the Women's Lifestyle Show! (Just sayin' is all!)

It is so cute! And you look cute in it! :-)

I am so totally going to knit that! So Cute!

Thanks for posting the photo.

You look like quite the hipster with your piece-y hair, DKNY hoodie and beanie look. Tres LA.

Lucia -- I just have the pom-pom and the stem with their yarn tails and rather than permanently attaching them to the hat, I draw the yarn tails through to the inside and I make a bow on the inside of the hat so you can take them off when you want, is that making any sense?

So cute!

I used to crochet those curlicue things back in the 70's - and wore them as hair ribbons - I'd crochet a curly then about a foot of chain then another curly and tie it around a ponytail :: tres chic!!!

It was one of the first things I learned to crochet - I never knew you could knit them - though the knitting sounds much more complicated!!!

I love the fact that your knitting comes with sound effects like "Boing!" I just get *&^%$ and, more often, !@#!!!!! Hope you're back from the undead soon.

Super cute!

My friend kari crocheted me a pumpkin hat last year and I loooove it.

http://pics.livejournal.com/didds/pic/000qx21x

it has a leaf and a stem and is adourable and I love it.

She made one for a baby and I was like "Ok, I require one of those in an adult size, please."

Could be worse. Could have been Fallout Boy calling :)

i do enjoy the hat. and i too design things that make me chuckle, mostly because i can't design things that other people would want to knit.

Aimee, I tried to work it in but I couldn't. My favorite one is "The eighties called, they want their shoulderpads back." I say that almost every time I go to look for work clothes, sadly.

(This comment will make no sense to anyone -- basically Aimmee had me in stitches yesterday in an email. "fallout boy called and they want their emo back." Aimee is funny.)

Aha! That explains it. CB.

Aaaaahhhh! My little "PUMPKIN HEAD"

That's what I used to call my boys when they were little bodies with huge heads.

Now I sometimes refer to them as 'Stinky Butt'

Woo Hoo! We have knitting fun!

Ooh! Knitting! I love the cute little cap! And especially the name. ;)

That hat is too cute! I love it!

Keep going with the knitting that makes people laugh. The world needs more reasons to laugh-- I know I do.

I feared after a few of the pix came up that there would not be one of you in a mirror wearing the hat-- imagine my relief when I got to the end of your post. I heard of a trick for taking pictures of yourself in a mirror using a digital camera-- turn it around and use the mirror to see into the LCD screen so the flash doesn't bounce off the mirror.

A friend of mine is obsessed with Halloween. She starts planning her annual Halloween party on November 1st. Seriously.

And she is one of those rare people who looks good in orange.

She is SO getting this hat for Xmas this year. There may be matching mittens involved, who knows?

love, love, lovin' it! Wish I had read this before lunch since I went to the yarn store (to pick up my yarn for your contest!). Will be making another trip to the yarn store TONIGHT!

Laurie, do you have one of those table top tripods??? You can put the camera (facing you) in front of the mirror, and then use the mirror to see the back of the camera and center yourself using the mirror to see yourself in the camera's little screen.

Also, it's great if your camera has a self-timer, or even better, if it has a remote control for snapping pictures.

I took a full-length picture of myself, modeling a crocheted sweater, using a mirrored closet door, my full size tripod, and the self-timer. Ugly picture, but I thought it was cool that I had 10 seconds to center myself in the viewfinder.

Oh. My. God!

Is this blog all about the knitting?

Shoooooot. I thought it was about a great book, cats, wine, cats, divorce, cats, houses on the highway, cats, um, some more wine and basically cats.

Love the punkinhat.

Shari you are funny.

Just the other day I got a comment about how come I never knit anymore. Followed the next day by someone saying there is too much knitting, not enough drama. I like to think of this as God's way of trying to break me of the people-pleasing habit. You just can't win 'em all!

I say punkin hats are the answer, indeed.

I love art for hilarity's sake. I'm sometimes tempted to get tattoos for the sake of funny (like a Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry back piece done holy trinity style) but then I have to remind myself that perhaps laughter is meant to be ephemeral.

Your pumpkin hat cuter, more hilarious, and probably less scarring-for-life-like.

the fact that you made a hat with a removable/exchangeable top thingy just floors me. That is just, well, cool.
Feel better.

Love the Halloweenie Beanie (hat and name)! I wish I had the patience to knit. I tried, it just didn't take with me.

You should sell these. I would so buy one for me and one for my daughter. Then we could be halloweenie beanies together. :)

I frogged the first scarf I created after finding your blog a couple of years ago. I've been reworking the red yarn into a hat and it is almost done and now I might be inspired to add a curlicue or some kind of stem/leaf and call it a tomato hat. Or a chile hat? hummmm

Dang, you are getting supa fly with the knitting! I love this hat but alas, knitting make me want to stab, um, other people with my knitting needles.

I also just finished your book. Loved it! I even read the knitting patterns just in case you talked about things like "tumping over". My southern mum-in-law says stuff like "dethaw the turkey" (wouldn't that be the opposite of thawing?).

So (not a stalker) if people have a pressie that screams: Send me to CAP! do you have a P.O. box? (Swear, not a stalker, please disregard prior statement about stabbing people with knitting needles)

Robyn!! In my family we are always un-thawing things! I thought it was just us, that is too funny.
Re: address, it's on the contest page somewhere

p.s. do not stab anyone with your knitting needles! don't want to ruin a perfectly good knitting needle!

TOO CUTE!!! (the hat is too!) I am gonna make a couple of those for the monsters! chattanooga!! Chattanooga!! Chattanooga!!!

I am so going to make that hat.
And amazon just delivered your book! -- I only put it down for a daily internet fix and those boring things one must do: cook, take the kids to school, etc. Then, back to the book!
You rock so hard!

Very Cute!

Got your book last night - will get to read tonight! It looks beautiful on my table - except my cat's jealous...

So, do you actually write these things up at work?

I found it, thanks!

*She also say to "crack the window up" and I'm never sure if I'm supposed to make a joke or break the window.*

Ginnie -- no, I have actual work I have to do at work
lol

I like how there is a cat on your lap while you are 1. knitting and 2. trying to take a picture of the knitting ;o). Isn't everything just easier with a cat attached?

Cute hat!

Does work know about your success as an author?

My boss knows, he had to ok my time off. I asked him not to tell the team about the book and he was fine with that. I prefer to fly below the radar... you know? Yes, i am a weirdo. It's just a thing with me.

I'm going to have to order your book from Amazon. I live in East TX where we have no B&N and Walmart has seemingly deemed your title to racy for their shelves. (This WM carries mostly "inspirational" books.)

Excellent hat! Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to make one of my own as my first attempt at hat knitting. I've got the right needles but I'll need to make a trip to the store to buy orange and green yarn ... how much wine do you think I'll need? *hee*

CUTE!

Like the hat. Enjoying the book. Skipped ahead last night to the shiny pages, and noticed that although there's no Bob on the cover, there's a Bob inside, several times, along with an occasional Soba and a Roy (small sniffle) but no Frankie anywhere.

So you hafta change the cover for the next printing to one featuring Frankie. Is only fair.

I'm excited about getting the chance to meet you when you get to Houston but I don't know how to handle the book! Will you be autographing your books? Is it ok to bring my book into the store and have you sign it if you do?

P.S. I'm crazy about the hat!

Norma -- I'm so excited about Houston, my whole family is coming!! Mom and Dad and brothers and aunts and uncles and cousins... and Drew of course!

Yes, there will be autographing and yes you can bring a book (though my publicist is worried no one will buy books at the store because they'll already have them so I hope at least some people come empty-handed LOL)

I got another email about this today, too, about how all this works and I am nervous myself! I think basically I try not to barf, and then I can do a reading and I'm going to try Q&A in Los Angeles and if it works we'll keep doing small Q&A at most events. Then basically everyone lines up and then I sign ... that part I've done before and it's the best, I'm much more comfortable one on one, it's the crowd part that seems intimidating. So then we sign books and you can see my whole nutty family. Houston will be FUN!

I would love not having to count when decreasing -- and it's reversible, too? Pure genius!

YAY! The book! the cats thought there was a "bed-quake" last night, and my guffaws were a little loud too! Thank you - between this and you "cleaning" blog entry - I wanna know: when did you get inside my head? (heh heh heh!)

Love the hat! Super cute! But now it's got me wanting some pumpkin pie, whipped cream, turkey, dressing...etc! By the way, LOVED the book, please come closer on the east coast for your tour! I promise there'll be DROVES! and also, wine.

I have never followed a pattern in my life, but you make it sound easy. I called my gramma and she has the ingredients for this lovely hat. I start Sunday, and am posting all about it on my blog! You are an inspiration!

...and you don't look like a zombie! MAYBE someone who lives in Maine, but...

A most excellent punkinhead hat!!! Thanks for the recipe, which looks like something I can follow.

Also, off-topic: thanks for your way-way-earlier posts about Zappos. I am not much of a "shoe fanatic" (because I am a whole lot of a "comfort fanatic" and most shoes don't seem to relate to comfort for me) but I will be making my first trip to Paris at the end of November and I need to get some comfortable (see?) walking shoes/boots that will also look nice enough to be almost-dressy (I'm told folks generally look dressy in Paris - is that true?). So I visited the Zappos site. O.M.G. I have never in my entire life wanted to try on so many pairs of shoes & boots. Never even wanted to look at so many pictures of shoes & boots. I was there for 2 hours!

Thanks Laurie!

how clever....

Came back to see how you did the curlicue, because I basically didn't have the attention span of a gnat earlier with kids wrecking the house, and got a BONUS picture of you with the hat on! Great design! I made (in July) a sort-of similar one for my new little nephew but wish I had your pattern to follow, the curlicue stem is too cute.

That is a REALLY cute hat! Thanks!

Your site cracks me up... I am a knitter and had been searching for some directions for some stitch when I fell upon your blog... having driven a few times in LA am enjoying your driving experiences... I sent the house on the freeway to my husband and he had a good laugh also... I don't usually read blogs but you have me hooked!... your shoes are a good match to go with Dallas' suit!!!

Adorable hat! I wonder if I have time for such a thing before Halloween. Me in an orange hat -- that ought to frighten the small children in the neighborhood!

Note in regard to your lil' fret about we folks lining up with a books purchased beforhand:

Nadine-of-South-Africa will be buying HER tome that evening......

How're yuns feeling?

Earlier post mentioned zappos.com, last night I was looking for some shoes and I ran accross a site called cutesygirl.com. Check it out I ordered 3 pairs of shoes and 1 pair of boots for my huge size nine monster feet for only $63.(no shipping for orders over $50 details on the site)

I am going to get out my looms and see if I can make a pumkin hat on it. I tried knitting with needles and my shaky hands keep dropping them. If I can ever get my hands to work. I would love to learn to knit socks.

The cutness! You rock. Thanks for sharing.

I got your book 3 hours ago and I finished. It was amazing. I think that you need to start a series! I really enjoyed it and I cant wait for you to sign it in Peoria, IL.

Are there hardcover books available?

Pam

Laurie,
Love the pumpkin hat. I 'winged' a cute apple hat for a co-worker's baby a couple of years ago. (We're teachers)

AND.. just a tiny little question.. months ago- when you were talking/typing a lot about your new Korean neighbors.. since, I live in Korea and all-I sent you some 'goodies' from Korea.. did you ever, ever, ever get the package? I used an address that I found somewhere on this site- and the package never came back to me. *It also had 2 skeins of 'amazing magic yarn' in it.

DID you get it or did some EVIL person steal it before you could get your 'knittery hands' on it?

Good luck w/ the speeches and all the public stuff you'll be doing soon- I know for myself.. I'd rather have a root canal.. than to do that sort of thing. However, I think that you'll do just fine.. find that inner southern gal 'fragile at times .. but, TOUGH when you've got to be' spirit that is in all of us.. howver, it is apparently buried down deep in me. :D

I LOVE the pumpkin hat and even though we don't really 'do' Halloween here in Aus - I am going to knit one!

Anyway what I really wanted to say was

"AMAZON TELLS ME THAT MY BOOK IS ON THE WAY"

Can't wait to get it!

I love your blog, and was thinking you do look a tad pale, but unless you have skin the colour of molasses orange will make you look dead! did you make a matching hat for one of the tormented pussy cats? NOW that WOULD be hilarious!
I love your blog, you are a crack up!

Lissapoo

Love the pumpkin hat. I have bought your book, just haven't read it yet. soon.

I've got a yarn question. I'm a new knitter and purchased "Nicky's knitted Christmas Stockings". She says to use Wool-ease for the stockings. I see you used Mission Falls Wool - superwash wool for your hat. Do I want to use that instead. I don't know hardly anything about yarn.

thanks

Why can't ghost's have babies? Because they have hollow weanies. HAHAHAHAHA. That is my favoritest halloween joke ever. I'm so mature.

Such a clever gal you are. :-)

Oh my. That hat is so awesome, and I love the curly cue!

I finished the book and had one last ugly cry at chapter 40.

I loved it!

I especially liked how the patterns are called recipes and that wine is a required ingredient.

Good Job

I got your book last night (finally!) and I grabbed a glass of wine, ran upstairs, drew a bath, jumped in and started reading. (Ahh, relaxing bliss!)

When I got to the chapter about the "divorce bangs" and the "hair emergency" I lept, dripping wet, out of the tub and ran to the phone to call my friend and yell "I'M NOT CRAZY!" because I did The Same Exact Thing. Except I was in the chair at the salon when I announced that this was what I needed and others who had been divorced were intervening and work at the salon came to a crashing halt. Strangers were assuring me that this would pass and I needed to breathe and that although we all think bangs will solve the problem, they won't, and we will just feel bad the next day.

I assure you "divorce bangs" are epidemic. I laughed until I cried over that chapter. (You know, the "this is really funny laugh" that moves into the "Gawd how did my life get here" cry? You know about those?)

I was also so reassured, once again, that I'm not the only one -- my friends who get divorced start dating, like, I don't know, the very next day. Me? I took a blueprint out of your life. I see no reason that you *shouldn't* shop for groceries at 7-11. Is this bad? Doesn't everybody do this at one point in their lives? :)

It's been almost two years since my divorce and even though I've made peace with it and moved on in every other area and am actually in a place where I realize, now, that he did me a favor by walking...dating is still NOT a good idea in my head. Very bad idea. Why, you might find another one that way!

Thanks so much for this book. I have to go make more coffee and finish reading it now!

(And I love the little devil blanket! I may have to learn how to read a pattern so I can make it!)

Oh my gosh I am totally needing a pumpkin hat. Too cute. Bought the book yesterday. Read half of it. I cried a little bit at that part where your Dad was hugging you. But mostly just laughing my ass off.

a friend of mine asked me to knit her baby boy a pumpkin hat for halloween and i've been looking for the perfect topper. this is it - thanks!!

Bought the book at noon, and am almost done (had to stop to cast off a Hemlock ring blanekt!), and I am loving it. Although I am not a Southern girl, exactly, I did grow up in small town IN, then lived in New York for 10 yrs, and now Miami - the "cities" just don't understand sometimes, do they?!
Loving your book and glad you're moving on - hope to see you in Miami.

Just looked at your book tour dates - no Canada. Seattle is pretty close but alas - it is my opening night up here!!!! So I can't go spend my canadian dollar down there and get some cheap American goods....
Maybe next time - or maybe you will come to Vancouver. Minou and I are ever so proud that we met you!

I just finished making a Halloweenie Beanie for my 8 year old. Cutest freakin hat ever! I will email you a picture if I can get a good photo tomorrow.
(and put it on my ravelry page!!

Wow, are you kidding!? I'm amazed at the number of people you've touched with your blog and all you do! For a divorced woman with cats, I'd say you're doing very well!! LOL I love your wit and your vision and your perfectly wonderful pumpkin hat. Keep up the good work, Laurie! And, come visit my blog...it's nothing about knitting, yet...
Deb

Love the beanie! Cool pics, too. I can't imagine what it must be like to knit in one's pajamas;-> (Mine have little clouds).

Ang

You're getting skinny, Laurie. I guess the "happy lady" diet is working! Thanks for the pumpkin hat pattern. Cute cute cute!

Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your book very much! AND...you have inspired me to take up knitting. :) Also, I recently visited Staci's website verypink.com and saw the cute care pkg. from you. The music cd's seem like a hoot. Have you ever thought about adding them to your cafepress on-line store?

I love this beanie! Fun!

Laurie! When I come see you, please don't get mad when I hand you your book to sign and you see bite marks on it. It is all Bam's fault. Jealousy!

Getting back to your ?? about boots for "calv-y" ladies, I have a great pair made by Regence...love them, god bless Nordstrom Rack (last year).

Right. I am now one of the annoying mainstream bloggers who tags unsuspecting bloggers with a meme thing. It's for random items, tag you're one of "it", and details are on my blog at:
http://bunsofstrudel.blogspot.com/

Yes, I suck, and No, I am not a stalker.

Just wanted you to know I ordered FOUR of your books from Amazon and can't wait to give them to my cat friends/divorced frends/knitter friends. In fact, I think I need another 4 now that I'm thinking about it! I am half way through it and love love love it. You are awesome and please come to VA sometime, I would so come to a book signing!

I don't think you look like a zombie... although if start saying anything about brains I will be forced to turn you over to the blog police and get you quarantined whilst I hide all the living. And besides, pale is in, isn't it? Or am I just saying that because I only turn a darker shade of pale during the summer.. one of life's great mysteries

Finished your book in one sitting/laying!!!! Loved it, my BF thinks I am nuts reading a book about drunk people and cats and laughing outloud, but whatever!!! Cannot wait to see you in Maimi!

Wait does this make an adult sized hat?! I'm gettin' one!

Sheesh! I leave town for a couple of days, and you post the cutest daggone pattern ever! Well. I must go buy some orange wool. :)

I MADE THE PUMPKIN HAT! (insert high-pitched girly squealing) I'll have to take a photo and post it on my blog in the next day or so for Proof Of Knitting, but I gotta' tell ya', I'm as happy as a piglet in a puddle!

I've been the sad "scarf and dishcloth" newbie knitter for about a year. Never got brave enough to venture into the scary Lands of Increase & Decrease much less the Land of the DPNs. Your pumpkin hat was just too much temptation for me to resist. It was the perfect first project for getting me beyond Scarfdom. Granted, I did mess up one stitch (which I didn't catch until I was almost finished) but hey! I'm not gonna' get in a twist over one stinkin' mis-stitch when I HAVE A WHOLE HAT!

Thank you, Laurie. You so rock!

Laurie ! I just ordered your book from amazon.com :].

Dearest Auntie!

I just wanted to wish you a happy, safe and totally cool inaugural book tour trip!

May your cheeks not break from all the smiling!!

Good luck!

Love, a BIG fan of you, your family and your kitties!

CUTE!
Oh My Goodness! I've been sick, too, and just knitting away for days! I'm back at the office today, but I miss my knitting....

Hope you feel better soon. (frankly, we must have caught this on the bus, you think??)

Laurie!! Come to Colorado Springs for your Book tour, and i'll bring wine :)

seriously, read the book over the weekend. Laughed until i peed my pants. TWICE. omg.

OMG, I don't read for a week nearly and there is KNITTING CONTENT! Wow! Cool! I love the hat and DH would happily wear it if I make it a rather unpumpkinly shade of orange.
Hope you are feeling better. My only remaining pair of pyjamas have large pink pigs wearing pyjamas on them...

I am totally loving this hat! It's so easy to knit and will serve me well as my Halloween costume this year. (I hate dressing up!) Thanks for sharing. (The first one is knitting up so fast I may have to make one for my friend!)

Hey, you are on the Craft blog today. :)

What an awesome hat and wonderful tutorial. I came over here from Craftzine to see this and I'm hooked on the whole idea. Thank you so much!

Hey, I just finished one! I did 80 stitches and 5 inches to decrease to make a kid-size one, and I've already cast on a second for the other kidlet. Very fast knit, very fun! Thanks, Laurie! (I'll post pics on my blog once I have some--I'll let you know).

Okay, I know I'm a couple of days behind in this, but thanks for risking jail for the handbag picture. It is very much appreciated. You're like Joanne Woodward in that movie with Paul Newman that isn't Long, Hot Summer.

I'm behind too - love the argyle shoes!

Now, are you feeling better? We all want you nice and healthy for your book tour. When do you leave? Or have you already? (If so, I'm talking to myself...)

You know, you really look like 25 in that picture. If that. No foolin'.

When I saw this, it was like my wool dreams coming true! I've longed for a pumpkin hat since seeing an itty bitty one. I just bought the yarn for this, and I am so excited to be able to pretend I'm a pumpkin!
Thank you!